Future passed in the New Sun

Michael Straight · 24 Apr 2002, 18:11 · from urth-v0204.mbox · original

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From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Future passed in the New Sun
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Adam Stephanides wrote:

> I have a hard time reconciling this reading with the references in the
> SHADOW appendix to "a tongue that has not yet achieved existence" (unless=
 we
> are supposed to believe that the timelines are so similar that the exact
> same languages will develop) and "the posthistoric world."  Also, we would
> have to accept that some artifacts and even buildings had survived the
> singularity, as well as Sev's manuscript.

I thought sure those comments in the Appendix were jokes.  They made me
laugh.

-Rostrum


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